We spend our entire lives trying to keep things in balance – whether it is our checkbook, our diet, or our body. As we age, maintaining physical balance becomes more important to continuing the activities we enjoy. Here are a few tips from Life Fitness to help you find your balance.
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Snacker slackers are those of you who rather than grab a nutritious whole food, like apples and carrot sticks, for snack you reach for the highly processed stuff, like chips and cookies. Now, don’t be hard on yourself. It’s tough to walk into the supermarket and not be tempted by the snacks they look good, […]
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If you’ve entered anyone of our big Capital Region supermarkets you know what I’m talking about. The colorful tags or labels that hang off the shelves letting you know just how healthy the product is. Hannaford has Guiding Stars, Price Chopper has NuVal and Shop Rite has their Live Right program which doesn’t exactly give […]
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February 4th is World Cancer Day and it’s also a day that we will say good-bye to 1,500 people — that’s the approximate number of people who die daily from cancer. Over the course of 2012, approximately 7.6 million people will die from some form of cancer. Most of them will likely die from one […]
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A Super Bowl party with pizza, chicken wings, nachos and beer is tasty yet super fattening. If you want to be able to cheer the Giants — o.k fine or the Patriots blah, blah — all the way to the Vince Lombardi Trophy celebration then may I suggest some tastier options that you won’t even […]
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During this past weekends Fit as a Family event, I asked many of you who attended three simple questions. To make things a bit more interesting and honest, I decided to ask the kids first. The questions were: 1. Who exercises more? Mom, Dad or both evenly 2. How many times a week do you […]
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A trip to the grocery store can set you up for diet failure. When armed with a proper list, a full belly and some willpower you can turn that shopping trip into a week full of well-balanced meals — treats and all. Dr. Oz has put together this handy shopping list of the top 99 […]
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390. You call that a record. 428. Now, that’s a record! While it won’t be official until Guinness reviews the event, we had more than enough people to shatter the record — it didn’t come easy. We were almost 20 people shy come noon, but with some fast thinking we got some great people to […]
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Start a new family tradition with Friday night game nights. Instead of going out or chilling on the couch, why not get up and have some fun together. Here are tips for some Fit Family Fun — and a workout: Sit-up race: Challenge each other to who can do the most sit-ups in a minute. […]
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This is a new feature here on the HealthyLife blog that I like to call “You tell me?” I’ll choose from items that can be found in your house maybe food or some other item or perhaps a new gadget on the market. All you then have to do is tell me what healthy things […]
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